The winner of a £15.5million Lotto jackpot is taking his neighbour to court to settle a boundary dispute over a 3ft patch of grass.

Former lorry driver Tom Naylor, 58, and his wife Rita, 56, moved into a luxury £480,000 barn conversion after they scooped the multi-million-pound prize in 2001.

Mr Naylor has since become embroiled in a bitter turf war over a strip of land that runs about 500ft along the edge of his two-acre property.

He is now taking restaurant owner Zillar Rahman to court to recover between £5,000 and £15,000 in costs, according to a county court claim form.

Mr Naylor claims Mr Rahman, who owns the Cafe India restaurant to the south of his property in Wheaton Aston, Staffs, demolished his boundary fence in April 2012 and tampered with a manhole cover, which caused raw sewage to flood his paddock and driveway.

Mr Naylor said: "The restaurant owner left my land in a terrible state.

"It's quite simple really. I want my land back and my fence put back up."

But Mr Rahman, 39, disputes the claims.

He said: "As far as I am concerned the land belongs to me.

"When he put up the fence he moved the posts a few yards on to my land and it caused all the damage to the sewers.

"I had to take it down to get the manhole cover repaired. The job cost me thousands of pounds to fix a problem he caused."

Neighbours have accused Mr Naylor of having "nothing better to do" since retiring from his job as a HGV driver following the huge jackpot win.

One, Chris Rawlins, 61, whose home is sandwiched between Mr Naylor's home and Cafe India, said: "I have seen the plans and in my opinion the land does not belong to Mr Naylor.

“The boundary is a straight line running the length of his property up to Staffordshire Motor Homes.”

Another, Andy Smith of Weston Motor Company, added: "I suspect he's just doing it because he has nothing better to be doing these days."

Mediation between Mr Naylor and Mr Rahman broke down in May.

The case is now due to be heard at Stafford County Court early next year.